I had to buy a new fridge a couple of weeks ago. The old one stopped keeping things cold, making it pretty functionally obsolete. Our new fridge is stupidly smart. It tells me the weather, turns on NPR, keeps track of food that’s about to expire, and stays up to date on my calendar. It’s […]
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We Need To Protect Our Access To Reproductive Health Care In Virginia
If you’ve been plugged into any media outlet over the past several years, then you know access to abortion care is under attack all across the country, and Virginia is no exception. Since 2011, anti-abortion politicians in Virginia have introduced over 170 anti-abortion bills and regulations. These bills were designed to shame and stigmatize people […]
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Freedom to Vote in Virginia, No excuse required
Tuesdays, amiright? Alarms, commute, school drop off, school pick up, dinner, bath time, bed time. And it’s not even the middle of the week. Add to that list getting out of the house or leaving work a little early to get to your polling location to vote? Look, voting is IMPORTANT and our civic duty […]
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Make Virginia’s Tax System Work for Everyone!
Imagine this: you fill out your state income tax form. At the end, you see you see your total income tax comes to $600 but you have an earned income tax credit of $1100. So, what happens next? Well, if you live in many other states, your state government will cut you a check for […]
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Let’s Increase the Felony Threshold and Decrease the Money We Spend on Youth Prisons
A longtime friend of mine is one of the coolest guys I know. He has a fiancee, a beautiful home, and an impressive job as a banker. But one small decision almost changed all of that. When we were in high school, he decided to steal a jacket. He was an honor roll student, but […]
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Me. I. We. Us.
“They want our state…. When folks come here and they want to come to our state, they need to come as citizens of our country and citizens of this commonwealth — not to change the people that we are.” Those are comments Republican Delegate Margaret Ransone made to the Washington Post this week. Her comments […]
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Senator Amanda Chase Got Ratioed. Again.
Poor GOP state Senator Amanda Chase is having a rough time of it on Twitter lately. It seems no matter what she tweets, the internet is there to ratio her. Not familiar with the term? Urban Dictionary helpfully defines it as “being revealed as an idiot on twitter by having a high ratio of comments […]
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Cox’s answer to gun violence prevention? Mass incarceration
Richmond, VA—Speaker Kirk Cox will do anything to avoid taking on the NRA’s lobbyists and tackling the crisis of gun violence in our communities. He will bottle up background check proposals in subcommittee. He’ll appoint a commission to examine school shootings but prohibit them from talking about gun violence. And now he’s proposing to again […]
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Progress Virginia Statement On Call For Special Session On Gun Violence
Richmond, VA—Progress Virginia, the commonwealth’s leading voice for progressive values, today responded to the call for a special session of the General Assembly to address gun violence prevention in the wake of Friday’s mass shooting in Virginia Beach. Progress Virginia issued the following statement from executive director Anna Scholl: “Year after year, we have watched […]
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House GOP Misleads Virginians On Student Debt and Higher Ed
Student debt & college tuition have skyrocketed under House GOP’s watch Richmond, VA—Blocking protections for student loan borrowers. Deriding popular proposals to allow student loan borrowers to refinance their loans just like you can a mortgage. Systematically underfunding higher education. Skyrocketing college tuition. Somehow those low points failed to make in into a House GOP […]